URiM Resident Research Elective
Research Elective with One-on-One Mentoring
Offering 1 month Intensive Research Rotation with an option to choose from In-Person (local applicatants) or Virtual (applicants outside of the Boston Medical Center community)
September or October 2023 with application deadline of July 1, 2023
Each trainee will have the opportunity to work with one or more faculty, such as Dr. Neogi, Dr. Felson, Dr. Dubreuil, Dr. Liew, or Dr. Bujor
Eligibility Requirements:
- Applicants must be currently in a US Residency Program, either at Boston Medical Center (for in-person) or another ACGME accredited Program in the US (virtual)
- Applicants must be able to devote 8 hours per week for 4 weeks for the intensive research experience (during a research/elective or ambulatory block)
- Must qualify as a URiM, defined as “Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.” Boston Medical Center follows the AAMC definition of URiM which includes…
- Black/African American
- Hispanic/Latino or Latinx
- American Indian/Alaska Native
- Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders
Curriculum
1-Month intensive (Sept or Oct 2023) followed by 2 months flexible experience (later AY 2023-2024)
- Intensive experience (4 weeks) requires 8 hours per week, and synchronous participation in:
- Research Meeting Accelerator (1.5h/wk) held every Tuesday at 9:30am
- Mentoring meetings (0.5 h/wk), to be agreed upon with chosen mentor
- Rheumatology Journal Club 2nd Wednesday of the month at 8am
- Epi Journal Club 3rd Wednesday of the month at 12:15pm (~0.5h/wk average)
- Project research work (4.5 h/wk)
- Attend Clinical Research Office seminars (1h/wk)
- Flexible experience (8 weeks) requires 4 hours per week to complete Research Project.
- Potential Projects Include:
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- Epidemiologic studies of risk factors or outcomes of osteoarthritis, gout, CPPD, psoriatic arthritis or spondyloarthritis
- Scoping reviews of current topics in rheumatology
- Image-based analysis using data from the Framingham Study or Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)
- Development and user testing for a phenyotype/variable library
- Boston Medical Center residents only may choose a hands-on translational research in molecular mechanisms of scleroderma
Application Requirements
Apply
Research Elective
For questions contact rheum@bu.edu